Example sentences of "as we [vb past] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her name is Shinko , ’ he told me happily as we walked back to the flat . |
| 2 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 3 | I protested as we walked back to the flat . |
| 4 | She had shrunk as we walked back to her house , her arm had grown heavier , and the air in her hall was still and old . |
| 5 | And then , as we drifted back to the ship after a placid midday meal , a shadow darkened our cheerful day . |
| 6 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 7 | As we went back to Wyre home to Wyre we could meet the Wyre post boat coming across for the mails that we put to Rousay . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh God , ’ said Julia as we crossed back to the restaurant . |
| 9 | As we drove back to Sligo Town , good Father Devine regaled me with stories of Ireland 's literary giants . |
| 10 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 11 | As we drove back to Chelmsford we all wished we were back in the sunshine of southern Germany . |
| 12 | But now , as we travelled back to Edinburgh in the last train , he had a different problem . |
| 13 | We heard at least one yacht being warned off on VHF as we headed back to the Sunsail base in Corsica . |